Word: lequeitio
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...typical American."* Thither, to the City and State of Luxembourg, there came last week the Archduke Otto of Habsburg, 15, claimant to the Hungarian throne (TIME, Jan. 24). With him arrived his mother, Zita, one-time Hungarian Queen and Austrian Empress. They came from the little fishing village at Lequeitio, Spain, where Prince Otto has grown up in exile, tutored by monks, supported by King Alfonso XIII of Spain and the contributions of loyal Austro-Hungarian nobles. As Otto's impoverished little suite descended at the Luxembourg station, they were met by a half dozen open landeaux, bearing...
Disentangling himself, Cardinal Piffl found his eys arrested by a news item. It told how Hungarian Bishop Zichy had examined at Lequeitio, Spain, the day before a young lad who is the legitimate head of the House of Habsburg and pretender to the throne of Hungary. He, the young Archduke Otto, 15, had been examined for three days by Bishop Zichy, who declared him fluent and proficient in Hungarian, English, German, French, Latin, Greek and Spanish. Said Cardinal Piffl, addressing a parish priest with whom he was walking: "This is a strange coincidence. About midnight last night I awoke with...
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